I want Passage will sell air ticket

Packed by increasing demand for plane tickets at affordable prices, the online sales company of bus tickets Want Passage enters the market of air tickets. The announcement was made yesterday (03), in Galway, and sales have already begun on the site. With participation in the new business, the company projects close the year with a turnover of $40 million, of which R R $8 million will be from all of the airline tickets. In addition, the monthly investment in operations will grow 66%, from R $300,000 R $500,000 per month. The sales will occur through a partnership with the Flytour Distributor. According to the CEO of Want Passage, Lukasz Gieranczyk, initially, will be offered only Brazilian destinations. "We will offer international flights in the 2019 first-quarter, but for now we will take the time to validate the product," he explains. The company's decision to enter this market came after an analysis point out that most of the intended audience identified the brand as a seller of tickets as well, although the action does not occur previously. "Many of our customers also sought on our plane tickets platform and ended up not finding, so we simply offer what was already expected and sought by our customers and maintain their traffic on our site," says the CEO. For this reason, the objective of the company is to organically in new business, increasing the total number of sales and revenue, without affecting the operations of the bus tickets. The goal, according to Gieranczyk, is, in three years, become one of the largest online ticket sales agencies in the country. "The air market already has its famous agencies [known as Online Travel Agencies or OTAs] and we know that. What we want is to gradually give big focus in the air to compete with these agencies, targeting, especially in our current customers ", reveals Gieranczyk. He adds that the company will invest, starting next month, in advertising within the site for airlines. Experience Founded in São Paulo in August 2013 by Jaroslaw Piasecki and Lukasz Gieranczyk, want Passage had initial investment of R $420,000 and R $90000 revenues in the first year of operation. In relation to sales, even in the inaugural series, the company sold 739 passages. Since 2014 the company's revenue is increasing, with a jump of 90000 in the first year to 20 million in the first half of 2018. Sales also showed evolution, jumping from 739 tickets to about 177,000, representing 16.41% of the movement of the OTAs. Currently, the player has more than 150 partner companies and covers 5000 Brazilian destinations, which is equivalent to 90% of the operated by the road viações.